The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery

426 Pages·2010·5.79 MB·English

by  Greg King

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Rthe resurrection of the
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Anastasia, Anna Anderson,
and the World’s Greatest Royal Mystery
Greg King
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Penny Wilson
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Copyright © 2011 by Greg King and Penny Wilson. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
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King, Greg, date.
The resurrection of the Romanovs : Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World’s Greatest Royal
Mystery/ Greg King and Penny Wilson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-44498-6 (cloth); ISBN 978-0470-89086-8 (ebk); ISBN 978-0-470-89093-6 (ebk);
ISBN 978-0-470-89106-3 (ebk)
1. Anderson, Anna. 2. Anastasiia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II,
Emperor of Russia, 1901–1918—Legends. 3. Anastasiia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess, daughter of
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901–1918. 4. Princesses—Russia—Biography. 5. Romanov, House
of—Biography. 6. Impostors and imposture—Case studies. I. Wilson, Penny, 1966– II. Title.
DK254.A7K56 2011
947.08092—dc22
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2010016887
Printed in the United States of America
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To Professor Doctor Eckhart Franz of the Staatsarchiv, Darmstadt,
and Ian Lilburn for their generous assistance; and to the immortal
memory of Dr. Louis Pedrotti
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Contents
Authors’ Note ix
Acknowledgments xi
Cast of Principal Characters xvii
Introduction 1
PART ONE ANASTASIA
1 “My God, What a Disappointment!” 15
2 The Imp 28
3 Into the Abyss 40
4 “How Little I Suspected That I Was Never to See
Them Again” 57
PART TWO ANNA ANDERSON
5 Resurrection 77
6 Fraulein Unbekannt 90
7 A Story of Escape 100
8 A Ghost from the Past? 109
9 Encounter in Berlin 124
10 “If the Imperial House of Russia Wants to Let
One of Its Own Die in the Gutter . . .” 141
11 “A Sort of Weird Charm” 152
12 The Making of a Myth 162
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CONTENTS
13 “A Gruesome Impression” 177
14 A Tale of Two Books 191
15 Émigrés at War 208
16 The Trials 220
17 “How Shall I Tell You Who I Am?” 239
PART THREE FRANZISKA
18 The Fairy Tale Crumbles 259
19 A Girl from the Provinces 267
20 The Polish Factory Worker 278
21 The Myth Unravels 290
22 Into the Pages of History 305
Epilogue 319
Notes 335
Bibliography 379
Index 383
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